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Dominic Chianese

"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

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"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."

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"Every old poem is sacred."

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"I once aged 90 years old in one episode."

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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

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"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

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"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."

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Akiroq Brost

"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."

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"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."

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"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."

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Dominic Chianese
"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."

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Dominic Chianese
"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."

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Dominic Chianese
"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."

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Dominic Chianese
"I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy."

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Dominic Chianese
"For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing."

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Dominic Chianese
"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."

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Dominic Chianese
"I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something."

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Dominic Chianese
"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."

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Dominic Chianese
"They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me."

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Dominic Chianese
"Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this."

Life

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